2025 grant recipient Ella Power on stage at AMPA SPARK 2024 Guest Performance Image: Wenny Tan.

The Ian Potter Cultural Trust 24 Sep 2025

New Grantees | Round 2, 2025

This round of Emerging Artist Grants saw 45 early-career artists awarded a grants totalling a record-breaking $579,178.

From 167 applications in this round of Emerging Artist Grants, a total of 45 outstanding artists were awarded $579,178 in grants.

These new grantees will undertake specialised professional development opportunities across 20 countries, from Chile to Taiwan to the Czech Republic.

Whether it's a longer postgraduate degree or a shorter intensive residency, our new grantees will certainly make the most of their time abroad to gain the knowledge, skills and experience that will take their artistic careers to the next level. 

Congratulations to our new grantees; we look forward to seeing how each of your unique projects unfolds. To learn more about their projects, visit our Grants Database.

ROUND 2, 2025

Conservation & Moveable Cultural Heritage

Paul Coleman

$9,000

Crafts

 

Belinda Farinaccia $14,000
Steven Lees $6,000

Design

 
Alison Pyrke $15,000
Nathalie Coronado Quispe $3,500

Dance

 
Chantal Bala $12,750
Ciara Connolly $15,000
Ella Power $14,336
Erin O’Rourke $14,956
Grace Frazer-Sneddon $15,000
Surekha Krishnan $15,000

Literature

 
Georgia Kartas $15,000
Katerina Gibson $7,224

Multimedia

 
Stanton Cornish-Ward $15,000
Zia Gul Sadeqi $15,000

Music Classical

Clancy Anderson $15,000
Dominic Ward $15,000
Eklavya Mudgil $15,000
Hamish Jamieson $15,000
Hee Jin (Jimmy) Park $15,000
Jake Lyle $15,000
James Emerson $6,431
Lalleh Memar $10,000
Nicola Robinson $15,000
Noah Oshiro $15,000
William Shi $10,000

Music Contemporary

Benjamin Griffiths $14,962
Finn Clarke $15,000

Performing Arts

Daniel Cullen $15,000
Jack Calver $15,000
Kate Millett $15,000
Kristen Maloney $12,000
Morgan Moroney $14,000
Piers MacKenzie $10,800
Rebekah Schmidt $11,000

Visual Arts

Edward Dean $15,000
Gabriella D'Costa $15,000
Lei Lei Kung $13,000
Mechelle Bounpraseuth $15,000
Megan Tan $15,000
Min Wong $12,365
Nicole Clift $4,500
Shannon Powell $7,363
Victoria Stolz $15,000
Zoe Jackson $11,000